My friend and I paid a visit to the abandoned Pool Parc Mental Asylum in North Wales. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get in and we weren’t going to force our way in, but we did experience a couple of creepy occurrences whilst we were there. The asylum really is in the middle on nowhere, if you’ve seen the beginning of An American Werewolf In London, which was filmed in Wales, you’ll know what I mean. Anyway, someone or something was definitely there with us! Have a watch and let me know what you think.

A bit of history on Pool Parc:

Pool Park Asylum at Clawddnewydd, near Ruthin, has stood abandoned since closing in 1990. Like any good abandoned asylum, it’s damp, dilapidated, and deathly silent. The estate of Pool Park (spelled Parc in Welsh) began as a deer park for the nearby Ruthin Castle. Following its time as a hunting ground, the property was passed between a series of wealthy landowners. The elegant mock-Tudor style manor house that still stands today was constructed in 1862 for the second Lord Bagot.

In 1937, the house was sold to the North Wales Counties Mental Hospital, which was in need of a second location to house overflow patients from the nearby Denbigh Insane Asylum (the super haunted one with all the cages and lobotomies). Pool Park held 87 patients at capacity, but in times of need had as many as 120. For a brief stint of time during World War II, the grounds also held a prisoner of war camp.

It seems to run along those lines with all big mansions, sanatoriums and sanitariums. They just abandon them and sit on them. Then years later they have to restore them for use as museums, condos, etc. It's such a waste.